weeding tongs

pl. The same as WEEDING FORCEPS (q.v.). pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, Which of themselves produce no venomous sin." Donne: Anatomy of the World , i. Seventy, as having seven for one of its factors, was sacred (Exod. xxiv. 1), and seventy weeks con- stituted a prophetic period (Dan. ix. 24-27). 1. Feast of Weeks : Jewish Antiq .: A name for the Feast of Pente- cost (q. v.) (Deut. xvi. 9, 10). 2. Pa ion -week: "Divide the Sunday from the week ." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 1. Lent, because on that day the more solemn com- mem oration of the Pa ion begins. (3) This (or that ) day week : On the same day a week previously or afterward; on the corresponding day in the preceding or succeeding week. week-day, s. Any day of the week except Sun- day. (Often used attributively.) "Takes upon himself to be the week -day preacher." - Thackeray: English Humorists ; Swift . week-lý, a ., adv . & s. [Eng. week ; -ly .] A. As adjective : "Put their German names upon our weekly days." Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 11. 2. Continuing or lasting for a week; produced within a week. 3. Coming, happening, produced, or done once a week. "So lived our sires, e'er doctors learned to kill, And multiplied with theirs, the weekly bill." IMG:content-0764.png:[blocks in formation] made of willows (q. v.).] A kind of trap or snare for fish made of twigs. "These rushes are used to make leaps and weels for fishers at sea, and fine and daintie wicker ve els." - P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xxi., ch. xviii. weel, adv . [WELL, adv .] ( Scotch .) weêm, subst . [Etym.doubtful.] An earth-house (q.v.). ( Scotch .) ween, *wene, v. i. [A. S. wénan to imagine, to hope, to expect, from wén =expectation, supposi- tion, hope; cogn. with Dut, wanen to fancy, from waan =conjecture; Icel. vána = to hope, from ván = expectation; Ger. wähnen , from wahn ; O. H. Ger. wan expectation; Goth. wenjan =to expect, from wens expectation. From the same root as win .] To be of opinion; to have the idea or notion; to imagine, to think, to believe, to fancy. (Now only used in poetry.) "Thy father, in pity of my hard distre , Levied an army, weening to redeem And reinstal me in the diadem." 2. To expre sorrow, grief, anguish, ., by shed- ding tears. "She wolde wepe if that she saw a mous Caughte in a trappe." Chaucer: C. T. , Prol. 145. *3. To lament, to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat."- Numbers xi. 13. 4. To let fall drops; to drop water; hence, to rain. "When heaven doth weep , doth not the earth o'erflow." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , iii. 1. *6. To give out moisture; to be very damp. "Rye-gra grows on clayey and weeping grounds."- Mortimer. weeping-monkey, s. [WEEPER, II.] *weeping-ripe, a . Ripe or ready for weeping. "They were all in lamentable cases; The king was weeping - ripe for a good word." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. weeping-rock, s . A porous rock from which water exudes or trickles. IMG:content-0765.png:[blocks in formation] Botany : Salix babylonica , a willow with delicate pendulous branches, fancifully supposed to resem ble long, disheveled hair like that of the Jewish captives by the rivers of Babylon. (Psalm cxxxvii. 1,2.) It has lanceolate, acuminate, finely-serrate leaves. It is indigenous in China, on the Euphrates and some other rivers of Asiatic Turkey, and in the North of Africa. It is cultivated in Europe and America for its elegance and its sacred a ociations. weep'-Ing-ly, *wep-yng-ly, adv. [English weeping; -ly.] In a weeping manner; with weep ing; with tears. "[She] wepyngly had shewed hym all her nede and besyne e."-Berners: Froi art; Cronycle, vol. i., ch. vii. weer-ish, a. [WEARISH.] wee-sel, s. [Cf. Prov. German wæsling, waisel, wasel = the gullet of animals that chew the cud.] The weasand. "The mastiffs of our land shall worry ye, And pull the weesels from your greedy throats." G. Peele; David and Beths a be. weet (1), *wete (pa.t. wot ), v. i. [WIT, ν.] Το know; to be informed; to wit. "Ye weten that aftir tweyn dayes, Paske schal be maad." Wycliffe: Matthew xxvi. *weet (2), v . t. [WET, v.] weet, subst . [WEET (2), v.) Rain, moisture, wet. (Scotch.) weet-Ing, pr. par. or a. [WEET (1), v.] *weet-ing-ly, *wet-ing-ly, *wet-yng-lye, adv. [Eng. weeting; -ly .] Knowingly, consciously, wittingly. IMG:content-0766.png:[blocks in formation] Christes institucion broken, and wetinglye receyve it, we make ourselfes partakers of the cry me."-Fryth: Consecration of the Sacrament, p. 75. -le .1 *weet-le , *weete-le e, a . [Eng. weet (1), v.; 1. Unknowing, ignorant, unthinking, unconscious. "Stay, stay, sir knight for loue of God abstaine, From that vnwares yee weetle e do intend." Spenser: F. Q. , VI. viii. 17. 2. Unknown; not understood; unmeaning. wee-věr, subst . [The same word as VIPER and WYVERN (q. v.).] [QUAVIVER.] Ichthy.: The popular name of two European fishes: Trachinus draco , the Greater, and T. viper a , the Le er Weever. The first, which is the rarer of the two, is from twelve to eighteen inches long, and an excellent food-fish; the second, which is from four to five inches long, is common on the coasts of the English Channel. These fish have the power of inflicting painful wounds with their dorsal and opercular spines. No special organ for the secretion of poison has been found, but the mucus in the vicinity of the spines has decidedly poisonous properties. The dorsal spine and the spine on the operculum have a deep double groove in which the mucus lodges, and by which it is introduced into punctured wounds. In France, the fishermen are required, under a penalty, to cut off the spines of weevers before selling them. wee-vil, *we-vel, *wi-uel, *we-vyl, wy-vel, s. [A. S. wifel, wibil a kind of beetle; Low Ger. & O. Dut. O. Ger. wibil, wibel; Lith.wabalas.] wevel T. H. Gorbid of the family Curculio nidæ, and especially those which force themselves on notice by damage done by their larvæ, and sometimes also by themselves, in fields, granaries, . Rhynchites betuli , a small blue or green glo y beetle, attacks the vine and the pear-tree; R. alliariæ ; a still smaller one, attacks the leaves of fruit trees in general; and R. cupreus, the shoots and the fruit of the p'um and the apricot. Nemoicus oblong us feeds on the young leaves of fruit trees; Hylobius abietis and Pi odes not at us , on the wood of the pine; Calandra gran aria, on the grain in granaries; Ceutorynchus a imilis and C. contract us , on the leaves of turnips, and there are many others. The Nut Weevil is Bal an in us nucum ; the Rice Weevil, Silo phil us oryza.